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Raresubduction
The correct spelling is subduction.
How to pronounce subduction
noun
IPA: /səbˈdʌkʃən/
Say it like: Sub-duc-sho-n
The correct spelling is subduction. The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
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Definition
noun
- 1.The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
- 2.The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
- 3.The act of subducting or taking away.
- 4.Arithmetical subtraction.
- 5.A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
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